Example sentences of "[noun] would [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court would be unwilling or unable to determine what speed would be expected from a competent getaway driver . |
| 2 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |
| 3 | In practice the administration hoped the need for action would be diminished as a result of the bold tone of the Doctrine . |
| 4 | My grey school skirt would be swapped for a rock-and-roll dirndl and six net petticoats , painstakingly dipped in sugar water to make them stiff when dry ; after the first four dances , the heat from my body would melt the sugar and my nylons would stick together . |
| 5 | The two parties were reported to have agreed in principle to create a customs union and a currency zone in which future separate currencies would be linked by a fixed exchange rate . |
| 6 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 7 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
| 8 | And there was a hunch that ‘ heavy ’ newspaper readers would be attracted by a tasteful paper with plenty of news , but which could be read quickly . |
| 9 | And , although the Supreme Court upheld testing of customs agents , a few members of the bench doubted that a drug-imbibing agent would be deterred by a test if he was not already fearful , as one put it , that he ‘ may be shot dead in unequal combat with unimpaired smugglers . ’ |
| 10 | Thus , the fringing reef would be changed into a barrier reef and finally into an atoll if the island subsided completely . |
| 11 | The federation 's president , The Princess Royal , said yesterday that a new medication control programme would be based at a laboratory in Newmarket and that there would be substantially increased stewarding , possibly assisted by the installation of video cameras . |
| 12 | In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred . |
| 13 | The transformation programme would be discussed in a " constituent phase " of conferences attended by all the PCI factions and representatives of the non-communist left , and finally a congress would be held to launch the new party . |
| 14 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 15 | Despite official US State Department denials that food aid would be used as a political weapon , it was felt that Sudan 's pro-Iraqi stance in the current Gulf crisis ( unlike Ethiopia which supported the US-led blockade of the Gulf ) had made Western governments more reluctant to offer unconditional aid to Sudan . |
| 16 | The Secretariat for Foreign Affairs protested to the United States at the concept of " selective " aid to the republics after Baker told Congress on May 24 that future aid would be considered on a case by case basis . |
| 17 | International financial bodies , headed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , had informed Boloña that notwithstanding the country 's creditable performance in meeting IMF austerity targets , economic aid would be suspended pending a return to democratic rule . |
| 18 | The new department would be headed by a Minister in the House of Commons and would be responsible for the administration of justice . |
| 19 | Later , the man who always insisted he was merely Fergie 's adviser would be left without a leg to stand on |
| 20 | Abadia emphasized , however , that port calls and repairs by US warships would be conducted on a commercial basis and would be available on the same terms to vessels from other countries . |
| 21 | The target wage for each industry would be implemented over a five-year period , but should be accompanied by a tailor-made programme on training , investment and productivity targets . |
| 22 | The creation of a single , unified agency would mean that pollution from industry would be monitored by a single set of inspectors , also responsible for setting standards . |
| 23 | Indeed , the Scottish nuclear industry would be left with a considerably greater radioactive waste management task if all cross-border movement of spent nuclear waste were halted , as she appears to want . |
| 24 | Under a two-party system of government , much the same result would be yielded within a one member constituency by any voting system . |
| 25 | Where there is more than one policy in force covering the same Insured the loss shall be shared on the basis of independent liability e.g. a claim for the theft of a watch from a holiday villa following forcible and violent entry would be covered under a Travel policy and a Home policy . |
| 26 | Enforced hospital entry would be accompanied by a loss of normal civil liberties . |
| 27 | He sat in the seat across the aisle from me and said the cars would be backed into a siding for two days , the engine would be removed and used elsewhere , and there would be a security guard on duty . |
| 28 | The prima facie rule would be displaced by a subsequent transaction which was not ‘ independent and disconnected , ’ as illustrated by the facts in Pagnan v. Corbisa . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if it turns out that the network fails when more than 7 machines are in use , the term would be regarded as a condition . |
| 30 | However , if the breach concerned some trifling defect , perhaps a mere technicality , which could be put right very quickly and easily , the term would be classed as a warranty . |